In the summer of 1988 my sister started dating some new guy. Like any younger brother I hated her boyfriend for merely existing, but that quickly changed when I saw what he was driving. I remember the first day I heard the exhaust note from his brown 280zx revving around the corner and barreling into our cul-de-sac. »2/22/13 3:27pm 2/22/13 3:27pm

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's the case, the MGB should have been flattered as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Datsun 1600 is sure like that British bomb. The question is, does this imitator's price make it the real deal? »9/26/12 8:00am 9/26/12 8:00am

Those of you who watch a lot of automotive TV shows are probably familiar with Year One's Keith Maney, who appears on
My Classic Car, Dream Car Garage, American Muscle Car, Hot Rod TV, MuscleCar TV, Horsepower TV »10/04/08 9:00am 10/04/08 9:00am, etc. What you may not know about is Keith's insidious influence on this site; both yours truly and Andrew…

Remember the
Carrera Panamericana »9/09/08 5:00pm 9/09/08 5:00pm-veteran '67 Nissan Fairlady a few months back? Those from Lucha Libre Racing are at it again, donning their wrestler masks, climbing in the Datsun, and heading to Mexico next month to race some more! These guys aren't just crazed Datsun racers looking for hoonage kicks- they'll be…

Welcome to
Down On The Street »8/20/08 9:00am 8/20/08 9:00am, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we're going to check out one of my all-time favorite Japanese cars, the one that started the whole hot-rodded Japanese machinery thing here in the US of A: Datsun 510!…

Wouldn't you know it, the 60s BMW coupe beat the 80s one in our last Choose Your Eternity poll. Sure, the 633CSi is more complicated, but you might be able to find a parts car or three in your local wrecking yard... and where's the Hell there? Today we're going to return to the perennial France-versus-the-world battle… »5/08/08 5:20pm 5/08/08 5:20pm

You may have a yearning for extreme Japanese weekend racers, but the real question is: do you have the Yen? Specifically, do you have 28.4 million Yen? That's what the 2008 Nismo Fairlady Z 380RS-Competition race-ready is going to set you back. For all that change, equivalent to $285K, you get a stripped-down Z with… »3/28/08 12:30pm 3/28/08 12:30pm

All right, this car wasn't sold as a Fairlady in the US (where it was the Sports 1600) but the home-country-market name is so much more fun than the export one, so I'm using it here. The Volvo Amazon is another example of a car where the home-market name is better than what we got, and the list goes on. Whatever you… »10/23/07 9:00am 10/23/07 9:00am

Effective immediately, there's a higher spec Nissan Fairlady Z (that's Japan's 350Z) tuned by Nissan Motorsports in the land of Nihon. Nismo's given the Z a few tweaks to provide extra body stiffness, better cornering and more downforce. Power's still the same, at 313 hp for the JDM model, which makes a… »1/12/07 7:26am 1/12/07 7:26am

While American youngsters tend to think of the Nissan Silvia as a 180SX-type drift car, if they think of it at all, there was an era, long, long ago — when their fathers were slogging it out in the jungles of the nation formerly known as Indochina — that the Silvia was actually a limited-run Fairlady Roadster-based… »12/08/06 1:30am 12/08/06 1:30am